Poems about Poetry
As with Recitation and The Loss of a Kuhi
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
this thieving of love
tightrope against what it means –
to visit the past
who is good; who wrong?
which brittle, yellowing build?
of old, bluing tarpaulin?
uniform as points, squares, lined
instincts and numbers primed too
quiet eyes like dark opal
their squircle an open seat
under chestnut shade
as with basho on his mat
there he lays, small, crouched
under a low-lying cave
its long, empty lake
praetoria of ruins gone
fingers curled into his palm
unfurling, unclenched –
tired hope for newer days
Qarrtsiluni
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
A few random poems:
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
- Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse by William Shakespeare
- You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day poem – A. E. Housman
- Николай Гумилев – Моя мечта летит к далекому Парижу
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Очкину (Было время, мой приятель)
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка воспитывает папу
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e:
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour. by Walt Whitman
- Константин Ваншенкин – Ехал я в штабном автомобиле
- Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- “If I Must Go” by Sara Teasdale
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
